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Library Renovation Provides Much Needed Quiet Space for Students

September 19, 2019
As UC Merced continues to expand, it becomes harder to find quiet spaces on campus to read and tackle class work. UC Merced Library staff members made it their mission to find a solution. A survey of undergraduate and graduate students conducted by the Office of Space Planning & Analysis...

Chancellor Search Town Halls Invite Campus Community Input

September 19, 2019
UC Merced is an extraordinary place in need of a leader who understands the challenges and opportunities that make the campus unique. Faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to a series of town hall sessions to lend their voices to the creation of the position profile that will be used to...

University Receives AASHE Campus Sustainability Award for Bobcat Eats Program

September 18, 2019
One of UC Merced’s core values is sustainability and that extends to food waste. Since its inception last year, the Bobcat Eats Food Waste Awareness and Prevention Program has saved more than 1 million pounds of food. The partnership between UC Merced and the Merced County Food Bank has...

UC Merced Reaches for Stars with Solar Cells

September 18, 2019
Two UC Merced physics groups are totally spacing out this year. Professors Sayantani Ghosh and David Strubbe and their students in the Department of Physics are working on a NASA initiative to fabricate solar cells in space and turn sunlight into electricity. “One of the big...

UC Merced Continues to Roll, Down Warriors 2-0

September 17, 2019

Bobcats Storm Past Mills College 6-0

September 17, 2019

Men's Soccer Sweeps Cal Pac Weekly Honors

September 17, 2019

Visiting Behavioral Economist Honored with Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award

September 17, 2019
Imagine blending economics, psychology, and neuroscience to pioneer new ways to think about human behavior. Behavioral economist Colin Camerer does just that and was honored as the recipient of the 12th annual Distinguished Cognitive Scientist award on Monday. Bestowed by UC Merced’s...

Cognitive Scientist Shows How Culture Shapes Personality Traits

September 16, 2019
Complex societies produce people with more varied personalities. That’s the surprising finding of a cognitive science study that attempts to understand how people develop into who they are: social and ecological environments in which we develop have a lot to do with it. “The way...

UC Merced Playing Bigger Role in New UCSF SJV PRIME

September 16, 2019
With a projected shortage of more than 4,000 primary-care clinicians over the next decade in California, the newest cohort in the UCSF SJV PRIME program presents a glimmer of hope to San Joaquin Valley medicine. Six medical students — all from the Valley — have been admitted to the...

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